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Definition of Jeered
1. jeer [v] - See also: jeer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jeered
Literary usage of Jeered
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Old Navy and the New by Daniel Ammen, Ulysses Simpson Grant (1891)
"Beginning of the Civil War—The Sixth Massachusetts Regiment jeered at and ...
It was abused, jeered at, and attacked with sticks, stones, and fire-arms when ..."
2. The reader's handbook of allusions, references, plots and stories by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1882)
"binds jeered at her as she knelt by а fountain in Délos to drink, ... lie laughed
or jeered at the feeble powers of man so wholly in the hands of fate, ..."
3. Hair Splitting as a Fine Art: Letters to My Son Herbert by Rory O' the Hills (1882)
"The evicting party which I accompanied as a spectator was certainly jeered and
hooted at: on all these occasions the names of Government officials are ..."
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